Pro: Bring back the Manage Replicas tool

In Arc Map, through the Distributed Geodatabase Toolbar (where from one easy toolbar I can perform "most" of my geodatabase replica-related tasks), a very important tool is the Manage Replicas, where I can check on, and if necessary, delete orphan replicas that may pop up for a variety of reasons, most often a desktop software crash in the middle of "create local copy for editing".

I can find no such tool, or equivalent functionality in Pro. If Pro is going to eventually replace Arc Map, at least it needs to have to tools that administrators need to manage enterprise databases.

Not having this will seriously disrupt a lot of ESRI users and slow the adoption of ArcGIS Pro. This feature is important for us as we separate our environments with replicas. So we would need to rebuild our entire editing workflow.

You know, I've had a change of mind about this. I would like to see branch versioning fully developed so that complex objects such as geometric networks, network datasets, annotation and topology classes are supported so we can take advantage of the versioning service, while moving our utility network editors fully to Pro using the utility network service(s) (as soon as the new utility network fully supports water, wastewater, stormwater) at 10.7

In this way we can move out of all these user parent dbs we have to maintain and replicate data from to our child production db, all of the schema change difficulties that replication produces, and stop having to tear down and rebuild replica pairs every time we need to make a change or every time a sync fails.

Don't get me wrong - I was a fan of data replication for many years and developed many workflows that we still use, but I feel like I see the potential in branch versioning and it's supporting services for simplifying things.

Found out on 08/27/19 that this should be supported in 2.5. We are trying to do the transition from ArcMap to Pro and ran into two roadblocks by not being able to replicate Pro based annotations or attribute rules using the ArcMap Replicate GP tools. Hopefully, replication can be released sooner than 2.5, which based on past release schedules would be January 2020.